Even the
New York Times acknowledges that maybe - just
maybe! - human beings are actually, y'know: animals!*
*GASP* OH NOES.
What is this?! They're giving horndogs a pass for bad behaviour by saying it's how we're wired? And wait: What's this?
"... male
macaques pay for sex with that all-important, multipurpose primate currency, grooming. He saw that, whereas females groomed males and other females for social and political reasons — to affirm a friendship or make nice to a dominant — and mothers groomed their young to soothe and clean them, when an adult male spent time picking parasites from an adult female’s hide, he expected compensation in the form of copulation..."
So, hey, y'all: Spitzer's just doing what pretty much every critter ever has: paying to have his dangle dingled.
... Some days it's good to be alive in the 21st century! We have scientific proof it's dandy to get our giggles ^.^
I
love science. Keep it comin', y'all!
(On the downside, pretty much all chicks ever - regardless of species - are vengeful bitches. But you already knew that, didn't you?)
* another copy of the article can be found
here if you don't have an NYT username.